Why is it that people will blame everyone but themselves for everything. The game Manhunt has been pulled from store shelves in the UK after a copy of it was found in the room of a 17 year old psycho who killed a 14 year old boy. Parents exploded blaming the game for the boys death. This is wrong, while I agree that the game is gratuitously violent, I did not make the 17 year old a killer, environment, family, and a disturbed mind did. Here is the article.

I am a huge halo fan and recently I saw the new trailer they are running in theaters for Halo 2. At the end of the trailer is a web site. www.ilovevees.com. This website is obviously some sort of advertisement meant to generate buzz (like bees) for the new game. It is so abstract though, even linking to a supposed blog right here on blogger. I have to give Microsoft credit on its different way of advertising. Got my attention. By the way the counter ends on Aug 24th which is long before the game is supposedly coming out (Nov. 9), but that would be all right with me.

Whether you are a republican or a democrat you should enjoy this.

Well I finally got my basketball hoop put together and put out on the street. Lee, my neighbor and I shot a few baskets to christen it and now it's good to go. Bring It!

I am totally jonesing for some new music, and haven't come upon anything really worth while.  Though I am excited for the new Nine Inch Nails album coming out around the end of the year. Apparently Dave Grohl of Nirvana/Foo Fighters is playing drums on 13 of the tracks which is kind of cool since all the previous NIN stuff other than the live shows were done with drum machines.  I like that Trent Reznor keeps changing the sound of it all.

I watched Farhenheit 9/11 and while I agree with Moore's views I think he went too over the top with the movie and made it feel more like a political commercial bashing the republicans rather than a documentary showing what a poor job this presidency has done over the past 3 & 1/2 years. 

So I have been avoiding writing in my blog for over a week now…Don’t know why now, other than I just didn’t feel like expressing myself or perhaps I am just too lazy, or is it tired?  Oh well who knows, who cares.  I am TIRED, I work too much!  But I have no choice, and if I did would it be any different.  I am constantly broke, constantly tired, and yet I remain on this path to better myself thru a different career.  Who knows if this is gonna work out.  Anyway lets see, been burning yet even more movies, added Pitch Black, SWAT, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Matchstick Men.  I like Nick Cage, always have, he just seems to be a cool laid back kind of guy.  Except the Elvis fettish is a little weird, but no one is perfect.  Several people say I look somewhat like him, but alas he is rich and I am not.  Saw my brother the other day, who I haven’t seen in months.  He is HUGE!  When I saw him I had to ask if he was on the juice, but he assured me he is not, just does nothing else but work out.  Although I think he appears to have a small head now that his body is gargantuan.  I have been spending what little free time I have had, mind you I work six days a week, on trying to put my yard together.  The back of my yard has a sand hill that is constantly sloughing off even after my builder put up a cement retaining wall.  So now I am building a second wall above the cement wall and about 3 feet further back of railroad ties.  I can’t begin to tell you how heavy some of those ties are.  I swear they must be petrified.  So I am spending tons of money on dirt, and bark dust, and rock, and railroad ties, and this is after I spent a ton on a sprinkler system and topsoil, oh and I still need to buy grass.  Will this madness ever stop?  We decided the bills were getting a little out of hand so I took a loan out on my 401-K plan to pay all the credit cards off, which is nice, cause it’s one payment a week that comes directly out of my Safeway check and it is reasonable interest, which I still don’t understand why I have to pay interest on my own money, but whatever.  Hopefully one day soon, I will have a yard with something other than sand (damn beach).  I decided my computer was running like crap and it was time to wipe out my hard drive and start fresh, which I do about 2 times per year.  Only this time when I reinstalled WinXP Pro after the format I couldn't access my other hard drives, I have 4 hard drives with 500 gb total all of which have my backed up stuff like 15,000 mp3s and movies, and pictures of my daughter, and other stuff, so I was quite upset.  The drives were there and displayed being near full but when I would click on the folders it would tell me access denied.  Turned out it was some wierd glitch having to do with swiching the drive the my My Documents folder resided on, so all was restored.  And now my machine is running smooth as a baby's butt.  I read a friends blog this evening, and I am becoming increasingly worried about his mental and financial well being.  His blathering is a little disturbing.  Hang in there man!  Well that is about everything.  I will try to post more often, but probably won’t.

Downloaded and watched Hellboy DVD last night, and I will probably buy it when it comes out. I never really heard about the comic, but it was pretty cool. I am finding that comic book movies are getting better and better, which makes me happy. Keep in mind this ain't Shakespeare. But Ron Pearlman is a damn cool actor, and the fish guy sounds and acts just like David Hyde Pierce from Frasier. Check it out. Now if they could just improve the quality of video game movies.

I rented the Butterfly Effect, and I have to say I like it. I think I prefer the theatrical ending rather than the director's cut though, it was just so depressing. Great movie, go watch it if you haven't already.

I rented the Butterfly Effect, and I have to say I like it. I think I prefer the theatrical ending rather than the director's cut though, it was just so depressing. Great movie, go watch it if you haven't already.

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Hope everyone had a good 4th of July weekend. I have been sick since Thursday night, but am finally feeling a little bit better today. We went to Long Beach to a friends house for a BBQ dinner, and it was good, nothing like free food and beer. We worked in the yard Saturday trying to get the dirt ready to seed now that the sprinkler system was finally completed. Can't wait till I have something other than dirt and sand in my yard. Went back to work today, God I hate Mondays, and first thing this morning not 20 minutes after I got to work, I had a customer come in to the store, bleeding from the nose and mouth, saying he had been assaulted by someone out in the parking lot. Some random guy just ran up to him and punched him a few times in the face because he and his friend were gay. Now what the hell is up with that. This world is getting scary. I can understand, well not really, thinking that someone being gay is wrong, but unless some guy was trying to put the moves on me, who the hell cares. God I hate people sometimes, Oh who am I kidding, I always hate people, I work in the customer service industry. Anyway saw spider-man 2 on Friday, and was somewhat disappointed, not that it was bad, I just thought that it kind of dragged in portions. But Doc Oc was cool, and there is a pretty cool scene with spiderman and a train. Anyway Happy Independence Day All (Belated).

Found a cool new band, Metric. They remind me of early 90's alternative/pop (kinda like Elastica). Worth a listen, I was able to find the album on Kazaa Lite Resurrection.

Been playing a new game called Psi-Ops, it is pretty good, it is basically a 3rd person shooter, except you have cool mental powers from being in some secret military program. You can light things on fire, you can see thru walls, you can use mind control to kill enemies, and best of all you can throw people repeatedly against walls using only your mind until they are a bloody corpse. I thoroughly enjoy doing that.

Today, is a good day, and I will tell you why. I along with2 of my new neighbors have decided to go in together and buy a portable basketball hoop. I am pretty excited, because as long as I have had a place of my own, I have always wanted a hoop but either never had a place to put one or couldn't afford to buy one, but now I can yeah for me.